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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1897
Page
4
The notice outlines subscription options for the Topeka State Journal including daily, weekly, and yearly rates, delivery by carrier and mail, and contact details at the building location. It notes open advertising policy and association publisher information.
A weather notice in Chicago Massachusetts notes southerly winds and a Saturday forecast with lingering cold fronts. The fragment mentions knickknack terms and unusual spellings, indicating a local wind advisory context.
A fragmentary 19th century call argues for regulated cocaine saloons as a counter to alcohol, asserting stricter controls and licensing would curb crime and addiction. It references Topeka debates, prohibition outcomes, and urges readers to favor a controlled, respectable approach over outright bans.
A Kansas critique argues saving healthy boys from saloon temptations will raise temperance prospects in 30 years. It condemns open whisky traffic, cites wrecked men as warnings, and calls for public opinion to end “destine drinkers” and alcohol promotion.
The Boston Traveler praises Senator Butler of North Carolina for linking farmers and manufacturers in common prosperity. It notes rising prices for staple goods, persistent debts, and calls for protective tariffs to aid producers. The piece argues currency expansion is needed as distress grows, with eastern readers awakening to western and southern farmer concerns.
Spencer Eddy arrives in London to serve as secretary to Colonel John Hay. In London Cecil Rhodes schemes to raise vast coffee production in Central Africa, abandoning the Natal coffee venture for diamonds. President William R Harper of the University of Chiradzo contemplates unusual Sunday school ideas and an experimental school with a normal.
A fragmentary survey notes Mrs Markey's prolonged sorrow after her son’s death and her retreat from public life, the appointment of Edward G. Bradford as United States Judge for the District of Denver, and a Civic-Historical Society figure linked to the Bradford lineage. It mentions Greek and legal circles, a collection of George Du Maurier drawings arriving in New York, and Richard Olney speaking on law and altruism.
A reflective column notes aging muting flavor of strawberries and mocks social niceties. It observes men evaluating women by appearances, warns against overestimating perfection, and asserts youth as the greatest blessing followed by health and happiness.
London May 7 The Mark Lane Express weekly grain review says Britain s wheat is below average and the general crop prospects are poor even with fine summer weather France warns of a likely record low yield, September buyers expected and Russia and America to face stiff competition in grain markets abroad.
In Kansas City Missouri on a May day the Commercial Congress opened with Governor Leedy as the principal speaker. Leaders from the south and west outlined railway and trade concerns, with Samuel Lapham named chairman and permanent officers chosen for two years. Discussions covered railroad rates, waterway improvements, and commerce with Paris exhibitions.
New York May 7 The Church Association for the Interest of Labor held its seventh annual dinner at St Mark's Place and Third Avenue. Bishop Potter urged respect for workers rights and warned that capital has banded with labor against workers. He noted modern employers often fail to know the people they employ and warned of cantankerous tactics. The event drew parishioners from several Episcopal churches and featured Harriette A Keyser among the table guests.
Fragmentary note describes a worker asserting actions if timely pay or justice is not provided by an employer. The text hints at labor unrest and potential strikes as a response to mistimed wages or duties amid work demands.
London May 7 Port Sunlight a model village six miles from Liverpool built by Lever Brothers houses for workers with modern amenities rents from 4 10 to 6 shillings include water and end water closet village council governs each department of works social clubs churches and schools maintained by the company 8 hour day profit sharing scheme praised for good management and broad satisfaction
H Brown of Topeka writes that he and a party prospecting in the Wichita mountains found surface quartz carrying gold and silver in paying quantities. He notes other prospectors report quartz assaying four dollars per ton in gold and that excitement could bring a boom as prospecting increases. See Jones for ice. Phone 430.
A new creamery on Jackson Street north of Sixth is set for a formal opening tomorrow at 9 AM. Topeka citizens and traders will witness modern butter making as units operate from raw milk to churned product. Souvenir butter packages will be handed to attendees.
W. M. Kinsella was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary by Judge Hazen after conviction for pocket picking at the April term opening. He refused mercy, claiming the trial was a farce, and resisted arrest on a Union Pacific train where he struggled with Officer John Lucay and three others before police took him to the station.
Judge T Maxey of the federal court in San Antonio, Texas, issued an opinion on May 7 ruling on the right of Ricardo Rodrigues, a Mexican citizen, to become a U S citizen. The case contended Rodrigues was ineligible due to his color.
The Chicago and Alton directors reduced the annual dividend on stock to 7 percent. The stock price declined from 166 bid yesterday to 184 offered at noon. The report notes Ayer's Sarsaparilla among notable medical discoveries of the century.
Washington May 7 orders rearrange the war department staff transferring Gov Otis to Denver to command the department of Colorada with headquarters at Denver and Merriam and Anderson to lead the infantry in Denver while Wheaton retires. Browke moves to major generalship as Wheaton departs. the vacant brigadier generalship draws several candidates.
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